I really want to build an operating system.
Can somebody out there help me?
cwhizz123 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to PostLinus Torvalds started hacking on minix, and then started his own OS - it was at least 2-3 years before it was released into the wild, and is now the most widely used OS in the world! :-) If you really want to do this, then I suggest tackling a …
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Momerath 1,327 Nearly a Senior Poster Featured Poster
Josue198s
Start by reading on Minix3 or Unix..download their kernel source code and study how the OS then from there try developing something similar to that good luck..i got a B for Operating Systems this year it was cool..
Josue198s
http://www.minix3.org/
Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Third Edition
By Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Albert S. Woodhull - Amherst, Massachusetts
rubberman 1,355 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
Linus Torvalds started hacking on minix, and then started his own OS - it was at least 2-3 years before it was released into the wild, and is now the most widely used OS in the world! :-) If you really want to do this, then I suggest tackling a more "advanced" architecture, such as a micro-kernel message passing OS. For reference material, see Thoth, Plan-9, QNX, Amiga OS.
Rashakil Fol 978 Super Senior Demiposter Team Colleague
Undergraduates do this all the time in their Operating Systems courses. Find some notes online.
rubberman 1,355 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
Undergraduates do this all the time in their Operating Systems courses. Find some notes online.
Well, what they do is usually a Q&D (Quick and Dirty) little mini-OS. More a run-time executive than anything else. There is no time even in an advanced undergraduate course to do much more than that.
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